Najwa Najjar

Jury Member

Writer/ Director Najwa Najjar received her BA Political Science and Economics, MA Film (US). She has worked in both documentary and fiction since 2000. Her critically acclaimed debut was the award-winning feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh (2009). Her second award winning feature film Eyes of a Thief (2014) which won Best Director and Best Actor awards (among many others) brought for the first time in Palestinian cinema Egyptian superstar Khaled Abol Naga The film was the Palestinian nomination for the 2015 Oscars Best Foreign Film and the Golden Globe Awards. She’s a speaker on numerous panels on cinema and a Jury member of several International Film Festivals. Najjar has reviewed books, and her articles on Palestinian cinema have been published. She has been a reader for the Rawi Sundance Lab for Arab scriptwriters and has been an advisor for the Rawi Sundance Scriptwriter’s Lab for two consecutive sessions. She is currently in preproduction on her third feature film, a road trip: Son of a Very Important Man to be shot throughout Palestine.

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